9. The Good Wife

Six seasons on, The Good Wife has garnered 5 Emmys and a Television Critics Association Award for "Outstanding Achievement in Drama," not to mention the gushing praise of television critics everywhere. And yet most people (and especially most men!) raise a quizzical eyebrow when you drop its title in conversation. For shame! A show produced by Ridley Scott and starring the incomparable Julianna Margulies deserves better, and you'd think the salacious premise — the wife of a scandalized politician trying to recover some semblance of normalcy after her husband's infidelity — would resonate with a generation that grew up with Clinton/Kennedy/Edwards/Spitzer/Weiner sex scandals.